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and deliquescing into a black, dripping liquid, leaving the 

 stems standing. 



3. Goprinus colensoi, Berk., Flora N.Z. ii., p. 175 ; Hdbk. 

 N.Z. Flora, p. 604; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 



Pileus cylindrical, obtuse, then campanulate, very thin, 

 covered with snow-white scurfy meal, below the meal greyish 

 and slightly striate, ^-f cm. high; gills narrow, black ; spores 

 blackish-brown, elliptic-oblong, 0-7 /x, long; stem 1-5-4 cm. 

 long, slender, tomentose, white. 



On dung ; subfasciculate. Northern Island, New Zea- 

 land. 



A pretty little endemic species, allied to Goprinus niveus, 

 but smaller, and the pileus not so cottony in its covering or 

 veil. 



2. Anellaria, Karsten. 

 Pileus slightly fleshy, regular, smooth and even ; gills adnexed, 



slate-grey, becoming variegated with the black spores ; 



stem central, ring present when young, either persistent 



or forming a zone round the stem ; spores black. 



Anellaria, Karsten, Hattsvamp., i., p. xxv. 



Separated from the genus PancBolus on account of the pre- 

 sence of a more or less definite ring on the stem. Growing 

 on dung or richly manured ground. 



4. Andlaria separata, Karsten, Hattsv., i., p. 517; Sacc, 



Syll. v., no. 4560; Brit. Fung.-Flora, i., p. 330, figs. 2-5, 

 p. 330. Agariciis separatus, Linn., Suec, no. 1220. 



Pileus ovate, then campanulate, very obtuse, not expanding, 

 viscid, even, ochraceous, then whitish, shining, often some- 

 what rugulose, 2-4 cm. high and wide; flesh thin, white; gills 

 adnexed, ascending, thin, crowded, broad, greyish-black, mar- 

 gin paler ; spores broadly elliptic-fusiform, black, opaque, 

 10 X 7 /x; stem 6-14 cm. long, straight, base somewhat clavate, 

 narrowed upwards, whitish, shining, apex slightly striate; ring 

 persistent, distant (from the apex). 



On dung. New Zealand. South Africa, Europe, Argen- 

 tine Eepublic. 



Variable in size, sometimes quite small, but readily dis- 

 tinguished by the pale, ochraceous, viscid pileus, which be- 

 comes whitish and wrmkled when old, and the long, straight 

 stem bearing a persistent, almost median, ring. 



5. Anellaria fimiputris, Karsten, Hattsv., i., p. 518 ; Sacc, 



Syll. v., no. 4561; Brit. Fung.-Flora, i., p. 331. Agaricus 

 (Panceolus) fimiyntris, Austr. Fung., p. 66. 

 Pileus submembranaceous, conical, then expanded, with 

 an indication of a broad umbo, even, viscid, smoky-grey, 



